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- The City Life Supplement is doing another season, this time at the Holiday Club, opening September 29 at the Holiday Club. The monthly performances will continue at Transistor Chicago.

- Some staffing changes at Auditorium Theatre; Colleen Flanigan is leaving Chicago Opera Theater to join as Chief Marketing Officer. Christina Bourné is in as Director of Education.

- The stage version of Big Fish, that movie with Ewan McGregor, will open at the Oriental Theater in April, starring Norbert Leo Butz, reports the New York Times.

Questions? Tips? Email kdries@wbez.org.

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Dueling Critics podcast, Friday September 7th, FREE!; on-air Wednesday September 12th between 9 and 10 a.m. on 91.5 FM and WBEZ.org, FREE!

Check here Friday for the latest episode of our new Dueling Critics podcast, when we review a Play to be Named Later. If you missed our first episode, here's our review of Vitalist Theater's production of Pool (No Water).

Then on Wednesday we begin our new once-a-month schedule on Eight Forty-Eight with a review extravaganza: three at one blow. –KK

Handshake Uppercut at the Chicago Fringe Festival, Thursday September 6th at 7 p.m. in the basement at Americana Stage, 600 West Cermak; tickets $15 including the required $5 Fringe Fest button

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- In 2013, the Goodman Theatre's Latino Theatre Festival will now be in the Spring and for several months, from March 22 to June 30. The productions included in the line-up are Pedro Páramo from Teatro Buendía of Cuba, The Happiest Song Plays Last by Quiara Alegría Hudes and Home/Land from Albany Park Theater Project. Of the latter, Kelly Kleiman wrote "I especially liked the game show Who wants to be an American?" when it was up in February.

- Comedian Judy Tenuta is performing FREE gay marriages at the Laugh Factory Thursday night through Saturday during her 8 pm show. The show is $29 at the door which makes this the STEAL OF A LIFETIME.

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- Oracle's 2013 season seeks to answer the question, "How do we use art to make society better?" with productions of Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Mother and Waiting for Lefty.

- Theater Oobleck is having a release party for their book More If You've Got It: Five Plays from Theater Oobleck tonight at the Hideout and it is free.

- Here is a story in the Sun-Times about Gina Milo (who plays Kira in Xanadu) getting better at rollerskating for her role. The headline?

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- Adam Ferrara was on The Morning AMp today. You know him from Rescue Me, but he's at UP this weekend.

- Steppenwolf's show banners give-away was somewhat of a success; check out the submissions. People had some fun, including Gil Tanner, who posed for Penelope and said, "Thank you, Steppenwolf!

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There are many reasons Americans are wistful about the '90s these days, and most of them relate to the booming economy. But writer Samantha Irby brings us one more.

In her mind, the problem these days is that "men aren’t terrified of women anymore. Remember the glory that was the super politically correct early- to mid-1990s? Those halcyon days when black people became African-Americans and Anita Hill handed women in the workplace a deadly weapon of self-defense called 'sexual harassment?' Those were the good times, when a dude was so afraid of being dragged in front of a judge for something as innocent as admiring a woman’s new haircut or nicely-draped blouse that he barely made eye contact when passing one in the office corridor?"

So what's changed. Well, the first black president was elected. Read an excerpt of this controversial argument below, or listen above:

What an amazing time it is to be an American.

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- There were clown auditions in Chicago yesterday.

- Speaking of clowning, Handshake Uppercut opens tonight at 10 pm as part of the Fringe Festival.

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